May 21, 2013 – Segment 5We close out the show with the energetic voices of the Baltimore Citywide Youth Poetry Team - this year comprised completely of young talented women – who will be representing Baltimore at the 16th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam in August in Chicago.
May 21, 2013 – Segment 4We are joined by A. F. James MacArthur, blogger for the Baltimore Spectator, who was recently released after spending several months in jail following a standoff last December with the police.
May 21, 2013 – Segment 3We turn to a debate over the IRS and Tea Party scandal, with columnist and political analyst Edward Wyckoff Williams, and political analyst Lenny McAllister, who calls himself the “Working Man’s Conservative.”
May 21, 2013 – Segment 2We discuss Islam and peace with Faheem Younus, National Secretary of Education for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland.
You can find Faheem at his blog, Muslimerican.
May 21, 2013 – Segment 1We get an update on the powerful, monster tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma yesterday, killing at least 51 people. While initial reports ranked this tornado EF-4, the second most powerful kind of tornado, there is evidence that the tornado might be upgraded to EF-5, indicating speeds over 200mph. Reports indicate that the tornado was anywhere from half-a-mile to one mile wide, destroying everything along a stretch anywhere from 12-20 miles.
Scott Dance, weather and breaking news blogger for The Baltimore Sun, and Zakk Flash Luttrell of the Central Oklahoma Black and Red Alliance (COBRA) join us for the segment.
May 20, 2013 – Segment 3Yesterday was the anniversary of Malcolm X’s birth, who would have turned 88. We host a conversation about Malcolm X’s legacy and his relevance for today with:
May 20, 2013 – Segment 2Are you concerned about unemployment in our city and beyond? So is the Baltimore City Council, which last week voted on a piece of legislation that would require businesses receiving contracts from the city to hire 51% of the new workers from Baltimore City, or face sanctions. The City law department has indicated that such a mandate would be unconstitutional. We host a roundtable discussion to consider the issue of dire unemployment and whether this measure or others will be effective with:
May 20, 2013 – Segment 1According to a U.S. Department of Justice study released last week, the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup has higher-than-average rates of inmate abuse. Nearly 13 percent of inmates at that facility reported being abused either by a fellow inmate or staff member. We talk with legislators and prison reform advocates about what real reform means. Our guests include:
May 17, 2013 – Segment 4We close our show with a fascinating tour through Mt. Auburn Cemetery, the oldest African American cemetery in Baltimore, for which a 7-year restoration process was recently completed under the direction of Morgan State University (MSU), and which was rededicated on Tuesday by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley. With:
May 17, 2013 – Segment 3We talk with artist Mina Cheon, AKA Kim IL Soon, and Ethan Cohen of Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in New York City – which hosted a show of Kim Il Soon’s work in 2012 – about the work of this Socialist Realist painter from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and how her work is tied to a quest for the reunification of Korea and global peace.
The Center for Emerging Media is proud to announce that it is a winner of the 2007 George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcast media! CEM is being honored for the 2007 series Just Words.